Afternoon all, a glorious day here after so much rain, sunshine, blue skies and reasonably warm at 8c. Late waking up due to the smoke alarm beeping into life again. Our electrician can come next Tuesday and we have asked him to replace both alarms at the same time to be on the safe side.
Enjoyed a good hour's gardening, sweeping the drive and cutting back yet more soggy perennials. Have fortified my anti-squirrel deterrents around the emerging crocuses with cut off plastic milk bottles staked with sticks. Doesn't look very elegant but I hope it will do the trick.
What a disaster @Jacquimcmahon, I don't suppose your OH will want to wear his hoodie now! I once sewed a patch on the inside not the outside of a garment, not the most sensible thing to have done so you have my sympathy.
Hope people haven't been badly affected by any flooding.
My daughter was going down to Teignmouth this morning for a good stomp along the beach @Egates so I told her to take her wellies just in case.
Hope your daughter enjoyed her walk, @Lizzie27! So muddy round here this morning, so we walked up and down the prom at Sidmouth instead. Don’t like walking on concrete but better than risking slipping over. It did start to rain here late afternoon, that wasn’t in the forecast! What a shame about the transport problems, @Busy-Lizzie. At least OH will have some control over his journey. Hope you don’t get charged an arm and a leg dropping him back at the airport to collect the car on your return! Ive just fitted my sale purchase mattress topper on the bed. I’ll report back on how it feels in the morning! Cant believe it’s Friday night already, that week has gone quickly, and we seem to have been very busy.
One of Anglian Water’s vans was driving through Suffolk this morning … (zoom to see the logo) … … I wonder what the odds are on a hosepipe ban this summer … 🤪
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This week has been so hectic, busy by day, busy by night ( socially), never had so many invitations, and I'm off to Spain on Tuesday, I'm liking 2024 so far! 😁
Unfortunately, someone in a truck took out my wing mirror on the car yesterday, but happily a witness managed to get the registration number and CCTV cameras recorded the incident so hopefully all will be compensated.
Still raining here, but not as bad as some places in the UK, terrible, feel for them all, water causes such terrible damage.
I love my mattress topper @Ergates, good luck this evening.
@Badly_Maintained, hope all is well in your world, you seem such a kind and thoughtful person.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Loved the story about the donkey AnnaB. Pixel is being her usual self. Such a loving nature. 😇
Punkdoc, I’m glad that the symptoms are settling a bit for you. You’ll be glad when all is settled. I can just see you bouncing around the garden in a couple of months.
Amazing footage and all your photos of the flooding over your way everyone. Best wishes to everyone affected by it.
Things very mixed, sleeping better, but struggling with exercising, partly pain, but partly feeling rather down, which of course is not unusual for me, especially at this time of year.
Have to admit I am very annoyed about the direction the forum has decided to move in, one of the joys was to be able to talk about whatever I wanted with a group of people I liked chatting with. I think it is a very retrograde step, which will spoil the forum, for me anyway.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
IIRC that sounds pretty much on a par with the progress after your first op @punkdoc … hopefully it’ll continue to improve as before 🤞
This is always a depressing time of year, lightened only by the prospect of my birthday at the end of the month when I really will be 27 … (well those are the numbers involved anyway). How can that be? That is a scary thought … I always presumed that by the time I reached that age I’d be old … but I’m not!?!? Am I?
I’m going to cheer myself up by checking my Wilderness and see if any of the snowdrops OH gave me for my birthday some years ago are open yet … they poked their heads through the leaf litter about a week ago.
Do you have many snowdrops @punkdoc? Any special ones? I was given a small clump of ‘Mighty Atom’ by a kind GW friend some years ago … looking forward to snowdrops is a good way to brighten the January gloom.
As for discussing politics with online friends … can I suggest setting up a closed Fbook group … I would think it would be ok to use PMs to make initial contact with those who might be interested?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Windy. Windy. Windy. We are expecting strong winds but on the lighter side - sunny!! The blast from the northern clime hasn't hit yet.
Being the 6th January, it is Epiphany and the French celebrate by sharing a sweet called "La Galette de Roi" which is a flaky pasty pie with a sweet creamy centre. Hidden in the pie somewhere is a little porcelain figure. If you crunch on this figure, you are king for the day and you have to pay for the next pie. And. You get to wear the crown that comes with the pie!! So it is not unusual to see French children walking around wearing a gold carton crown. My preference is the Royaume Dessert which is a big round sweet brioche filled with whipped cream!! Another version. Traditionally accompanied with a glass of cider. It is also the 12th day after Christmas when theoretically, Christmas decorations are put away.
A visit to my dermatologist yesterday for a follow-up appointment after he burnt a keratosis on my nose in June. Christmas lives on here as he found another small one on my nose to burn and so I have a red spot - on the tip!!
Hip pain on the left side is better but still using one crutch to relieve the weight. Right side and knee still to be seen. Hopefully @punkdoc yours will diminish each day as the surgery heals. Keep doing little walks.
Simon's Day today: A la Saint Siméon, la neige et les tisons. Yes winter is well and truly in full force!!
No one else up and about yet then … or is no one talking to me … hey ho … i shall continue to talk to myself … at least I agree with most of what I’ve said 😉
Edited to add: You snuck in while I was typing @tui34 … good morning 😊 ☕️
I’ve just taken OH to work … he was nearly late ‘cos we had to de-ice the car!… there was a sharp frost 🥶 if it carries on like this the south and east of England will be one vast skating rink … maybe we can produce a new generation of Torvill & Deans in time for the Winter Olympics?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Enjoyed a good hour's gardening, sweeping the drive and cutting back yet more soggy perennials. Have fortified my anti-squirrel deterrents around the emerging crocuses with cut off plastic milk bottles staked with sticks. Doesn't look very elegant but I hope it will do the trick.
What a disaster @Jacquimcmahon, I don't suppose your OH will want to wear his hoodie now! I once sewed a patch on the inside not the outside of a garment, not the most sensible thing to have done so you have my sympathy.
Hope people haven't been badly affected by any flooding.
My daughter was going down to Teignmouth this morning for a good stomp along the beach @Egates so I told her to take her wellies just in case.
It did start to rain here late afternoon, that wasn’t in the forecast!
What a shame about the transport problems, @Busy-Lizzie. At least OH will have some control over his journey. Hope you don’t get charged an arm and a leg dropping him back at the airport to collect the car on your return!
Ive just fitted my sale purchase mattress topper on the bed. I’ll report back on how it feels in the morning!
Cant believe it’s Friday night already, that week has gone quickly, and we seem to have been very busy.
… I wonder what the odds are on a hosepipe ban this summer … 🤪
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This week has been so hectic, busy by day, busy by night ( socially), never had so many invitations, and I'm off to Spain on Tuesday, I'm liking 2024 so far! 😁
Unfortunately, someone in a truck took out my wing mirror on the car yesterday, but happily a witness managed to get the registration number and CCTV cameras recorded the incident so hopefully all will be compensated.
Still raining here, but not as bad as some places in the UK, terrible, feel for them all, water causes such terrible damage.
I love my mattress topper @Ergates, good luck this evening.
@Badly_Maintained, hope all is well in your world, you seem such a kind and thoughtful person.
Punkdoc, I’m glad that the symptoms are settling a bit for you. You’ll be glad when all is settled. I can just see you bouncing around the garden in a couple of months.
Amazing footage and all your photos of the flooding over your way everyone. Best wishes to everyone affected by it.
Things very mixed, sleeping better, but struggling with exercising, partly pain, but partly feeling rather down, which of course is not unusual for me, especially at this time of year.
Have to admit I am very annoyed about the direction the forum has decided to move in, one of the joys was to be able to talk about whatever I wanted with a group of people I liked chatting with. I think it is a very retrograde step, which will spoil the forum, for me anyway.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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This is always a depressing time of year, lightened only by the prospect of my birthday at the end of the month when I really will be 27 … (well those are the numbers involved anyway). How can that be? That is a scary thought … I always presumed that by the time I reached that age I’d be old … but I’m not!?!? Am I?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Windy. Windy. Windy. We are expecting strong winds but on the lighter side - sunny!! The blast from the northern clime hasn't hit yet.
Being the 6th January, it is Epiphany and the French celebrate by sharing a sweet called "La Galette de Roi" which is a flaky pasty pie with a sweet creamy centre. Hidden in the pie somewhere is a little porcelain figure. If you crunch on this figure, you are king for the day and you have to pay for the next pie. And. You get to wear the crown that comes with the pie!! So it is not unusual to see French children walking around wearing a gold carton crown. My preference is the Royaume Dessert which is a big round sweet brioche filled with whipped cream!! Another version. Traditionally accompanied with a glass of cider. It is also the 12th day after Christmas when theoretically, Christmas decorations are put away.
A visit to my dermatologist yesterday for a follow-up appointment after he burnt a keratosis on my nose in June. Christmas lives on here as he found another small one on my nose to burn and so I have a red spot - on the tip!!
Hip pain on the left side is better but still using one crutch to relieve the weight. Right side and knee still to be seen. Hopefully @punkdoc yours will diminish each day as the surgery heals. Keep doing little walks.
Simon's Day today: A la Saint Siméon, la neige et les tisons. Yes winter is well and truly in full force!!
May you all have a pleasant Epiphany.
Edited to add: You snuck in while I was typing @tui34 … good morning 😊 ☕️
I’ve just taken OH to work … he was nearly late ‘cos we had to de-ice the car!… there was a sharp frost 🥶 if it carries on like this the south and east of England will be one vast skating rink … maybe we can produce a new generation of Torvill & Deans in time for the Winter Olympics?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.